TELEGRAM TO F. E. DZERZHINSKY[1]

Written:Written on May 27, 1921Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

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Dzerzhinsky, Chairman, All-Russia ExtraordinaryCommission
Southern Area (or present whereabouts)

CopytoVoinov, trio for combating the break-up oftransport, Moscow

Allthe Ukrainian comrades most pressingly insist on
intensification of the struggle against profiteering in the
Ukraine, which threatens to disorganise the purchases of
grain for the famine-stricken centres of the Republic,
purchases which have begun and are already showing good
results. Please devote particular attention, and inform me
whether emergency measures are being taken, what
measures in particular and what their results are.

LeninChairman, Council of Labour and Defence

[1]Dzerzhinsky,F. E.(1877–1926)—Party member from 1895. After
the October Socialist Revolution he became Chairman of the
All-Russia Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution
and Sabotage (known as the Cheka). In 1921 he was appointed
People’s Commissar for Railways, while remaining Chairman of
the Cheka and People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs. Member
of the C.C. of the R.C.P.(B.).